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r~ <br />KUL BHUSHAN <br />PRINCIPAL ENGINEER/PRESIDENT <br />EXPERIENCE SUMMARY <br />Dc Bhushan is a registered Civil and Geotechnical Engineer with over 30 years diverse geotechnical experience. His <br />geotechnical consulting experience includes over 100 bridge and seismic retrofit projects, 20 offshore and harbor <br />projects, 35 petrochemicaUheavy industrial plants, 20 seismic hazard studies, two nucleaz power plants, three solar <br />power plants, 15 medium and high-rise buildings, six airport projects, and a large number of other projects such as <br />schools, hospitals, commercial, industrial and residential structures, airports, highway bridges, embankments, and <br />transmission lines. <br />EDUCATION <br />Duke University, North Carolina, Ph.D., 1970 <br />Panjab University, India, M.S. (Highway Engineering), 1963 <br />Panjab University, India, B.S. (Civil Engineering), 1962 <br />PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS <br />American Society of Civil Engineers <br />PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION <br />Registered Civil Engineer, Califomia R.C.E. 22766 <br />Registered Geotechnical Engineer, CA R.G.E. 144 <br />Registered Civil Engineer, Arizona R.C.E. 33231 <br />Registered Civil Engineer, Georgia R.C.E. 25228 <br />Registered Civil Engineer, Nevada R.C.E. 10903 <br />Dr. Bhushan has extensive experience in major development projects buildings in Southern Califomia. He is currently <br />the Principal-In-Charge for Playa Vista Development (over 1,000 acres in Los Angeles), the Hilton Hotel in Huntington <br />Beach, the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Garden Grove, the DPSS building in Los Angeles and a number of other projects. <br />He served as Director of Geotechnical Engineering for Fluor Daniel for six yeazs and, in [hat capacity, was responsible <br />for providing technical direction and overall leadership in the areas of geotechnical engineering, offshore foundation <br />design, and geoseismicity on all chemical, petrochemical, pipeline, offshore platform, nuclear, solar, and conventional <br />power plan[ projects. <br />PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS <br />"Dynamic Testing of Large Capacity Precast Concrete Piles in the Port of Long Beach," with Dr. Alain E. Holeyman. <br />Fifth International Conference on Piling and Deep Foundations, Bruges, Belgium, June 1994. <br />"Settlement of a ring foundation using cone data," with F. Boniadi. Proceedings of The First Intemational Symposium <br />on Penetration TestingQSOPT-1/Orlando, Vol. 2, 20-24 March 1988, pp. 681-696. <br />"Lateral Load Tests on Drilled Pier Foundations for Solar Plant Heliostats," with Shahen Askari. Laterally Loaded <br />Deep Foundations: Analysis and Performance, ASTM Special Technical Publication 835, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, <br />September 1984, pp. 140-156. <br />"Friction Capacity of Piles Driven into Clay," discussion of a paper by Leland M. Kraft, Jr., John A. Focht, Jr., and <br />Srinath Amerasinghe (Proc. Paper 16663), Joumal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, Vol. 109, No. 5, <br />Proc. Paper 17924, May 1983, pp. 761-762. <br />"New Design Correlations for Piles in Sands," discussion of a paper by Harry M. Coyle and Reno R. Castello (Proc. <br />Paper 16379), Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, Vol. 1.08, No. GT 11, Proc. Paper 17435, <br />November 1982, pp. 1508-1510. <br />"Lateral Load Tests on Drilled Piers in Sand," with Louis J. Lee and Donald B. Grime, proceedings of a session on <br />drilled piers and caissons sponsored by the Geotechnical Division at the ASCE Fall Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, <br />October 28, L981. <br />